Hah, I was checking out stuff on http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#winspeed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, Opera is the fastest browser out there. 8-) And while FireFox has greater functionality than IE, it's slower.

I don't see anyone claiming anything about Firefox's speed in this topic actually.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html seems to be based on some vague research and fact, firefoxmyths.com is complete and utter bull.

 

 

 

I've spent a considerable amount of time reading over the firefixmyths website and reviewing it's sources. And I must say I fail to see where this "utter bull" is warranted? I think a lot of those myths are justified in the multiple sources available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However I agree the website is extremely bias, and similar nit picky sort of arguments could be made about pretty much anything.

 

 

Hah, I was checking out stuff on http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#winspeed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, Opera is the fastest browser out there. 8-) And while FireFox has greater functionality than IE, it's slower.

I don't see anyone claiming anything about Firefox's speed in this topic actually.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html seems to be based on some vague research and fact, firefoxmyths.com is complete and utter bull.

 

 

 

I've spent a considerable amount of time reading over the firefixmyths website and reviewing it's sources. And I must say I fail to see where this "utter bull" is warranted? I think a lot of those myths are justified in the multiple sources available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However I agree the website is extremely bias, and similar nit picky sort of arguments could be made about pretty much anything.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the stuff they say though is just incredibly stupid... for example, they say that IE is faster from a cold boot than FF.

 

 

 

DUH?!?!?! I would hope so, considering IE is integrated into the OS and is started as soon as windows boots up, since all the navigation in windows depends on it - of course its going to be faster than FF when your opening a IE window....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like the section that says you can use tabbed browsing with IE6 as well, all you have to do is go out of your way and install some spyware infested, annoying, obnoxious tool bar. I say this because every tool bar I've ever seen in IE as been just that, even the google tool bar aggrovates me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The security section is the best - "Firefox isn't secure since it has a few bugs" and then they go on to say that every program is going to have bugs... common sense, but the ammount of exploits seen in IE is nothing of that to compare to FF. I wish they would actually crunch some numbers here rather then just talk talk talk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This sites dumb, and while they have a couple valid points, they lose all credibility since they just enjoy bashing FF with stupid [cabbage] like "opera is .00391 seconds faster then FF"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

who the hell cares? Stfu and go get owned by IE giving you spyware...

I use Internet Explorer every single day, sometimes for many hours. I don't believe I've had any spyware on my computer in years. So I fail to see how Internet Explorer automatically means a computer gets Spyware. If you watched an average user I'd be pretty confident that it's user error and inexperience that is the cause of most Spyware infections.

 

firefoxmyths.com is complete and utter bull.

 

 

 

I've spent a considerable amount of time reading over the firefixmyths website and reviewing it's sources. And I must say I fail to see where this "utter bull" is warranted? I think a lot of those myths are justified in the multiple sources available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However I agree the website is extremely bias, and similar nit picky sort of arguments could be made about pretty much anything.

Most of the "myths" are just silly users posting stuff they know nothing about. The site makes it sound as though Mozilla is spreading these myths and undermining public knowledge or something, whereas this site is the first place I've ever heard of any of these claims.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would be like if someone said "The blue e is the internet" and then me arguing that Microsoft is polluting users' mind and that this is completely false and going into an in-depth analysis of what the internet actually is. Clearly, nobody with two brain cells to rub together thinks that the blue e on their desktop is "the internet" and we could just point out that whoever does think that is a silly user who doesn't understand what they are dealing with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, for an example of this, lets skip the first one on the page because it's completely silly, and go to the second one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myth - "Firefox and Mozilla are Not for Profit"

• [*:2hgzb9n9]Nowhere on the linked page does that quote appear.
   
   
   
  [*:2hgzb9n9]Firefox is an application, not an organisation.
   
   
   
  [*:2hgzb9n9]Just because a company makes an income, doesn't mean they are for-profit. The red cross makes an income, then they invest it into aid.

The reason the Mozilla Foundation created the Mozilla Corporation was that non-profit law is designed for and well understood when it applies to traditional non-profit organisations such as museums, charities, universities, etc. It doesn't mesh well with software development and distribution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, Mozilla Corporation was created. It's a taxable (or "for-profit") company, so it can make money and operate in the way any other company would. However, the subsidiary is wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation (there are no other shareholders) and thus its primary goal is not to make money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you look carefully, the page doesn't actually say that Mozilla is all about making money and fleecing users, it doesn't say anything at all, it just combines quotes from external sources to imply that that is what Mozilla is doing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rofl.. I just noticed a quote on that page:

 

 

 

"...Firefox Myths. Good stuff - give it a read." - Asa D.

 

 

 

Completely out of context. The actual quote is:

 

 

 

"accettura tears apart the myth maker

 

 

 

Robert Accettura has a nice response to the poorly constructed and mostly worthless article Firefox Myths. Good stuff - give it a read."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any page which quotes like that is clearly "complete and utter bull."

FIREFOX!!!!!!!

The actual quote is:

 

 

 

"accettura tears apart the myth maker

 

 

 

Robert Accettura has a nice response to the poorly constructed and mostly worthless article Firefox Myths. Good stuff - give it a read."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any page which quotes like that is clearly "complete and utter bull."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for convincing me about the actual crappiness of the site. 8-) As I've said before, I'm willing to change my opinions based on facts and observations, and I think the owner of that site is basically a clown just for faking that quote. And I don't really care about those millisecond differences in speed, because I don't see the difference in reality.

Opera > IE6 > IE7 > FF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opera loads pages for me the fastest and runs the best, IE loads pages the 2nd fastest but loads the fastest at startup and FF is just slow for me even when i optimize it from about:config.